Exploring STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)
Pathways To Your Future Careers is a career awareness program, held at Penn State York, for seventh grade girls highlighting opportunities in mathematics, science, engineering and technology.
Statistics:
Mean – the average
Median – middle value of a sample
Mode – most frequent value
Getting organized for technology use in the classroom:
Use a Google Doc Form to collect students user ID's and passwords for classwork. You won't waste time retrieving it.
Khan Academy
Khan library of videos covers K-12 math, science topics such as biology, chemistry, and physics, and even reaches into the humanities with playlists on finance and history. Each video is a digestible chunk, approximately 10 minutes long, and especially purposed for viewing on the computer. What started out as Sal making a few algebra videos for his cousins has grown to over 2,100 videos and 100 self-paced exercises and assessments covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history.
PhotoStory3
This is a free download and it will create a movie similar to the Civil War documentary created by Ken Burns. It is simple to use. This is a Microsoft product and for Windows only.
Audacity
When you download this program, you will also need to download a file called "lame". It allows the sound file to collect and render.
Example:
Draw Anywhere
Store and Organize your research and information, accessible anywhere with an Internet connection. Share your diagrams with others or by embedding into an existing webpage or blog.
Mapping America: Every City, Every Block
Browse local data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, based on samples from 2005 to 2009. Because these figures are based on samples, they are subject to a margin of error, particularly in places with a low population, and are best regarded as estimates.
Interactivate
Shodor Math initiative of applet resources.
Animal Diversity Web
An online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan
Periodic Table of Videos
Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but this modern version has a short video about each one. We've done all 118 - but our job's not finished. Now we're updating all the videos with new stories, better samples and bigger experiments. Plus we're making films about other areas of chemistry, latest news and occasional adventures away from the lab. We've also started a new series - The Molecular Videos - featuring our favourite molecules and compounds. All these videos are created by video journalist Brady Haran, featuring real working chemists from the University of Notttingham, UK.
WeatherSpark
WeatherSpark is a new type of weather website, with interactive weather graphs that allow you to pan and zoom through the entire history of any weather station on earth.
Get multiple forecasts for the current location, overlaid on records and averages to put it all in context.
Inner Body
Inner exploration of Human Anatomy. Each topic has animations, 100's of anatomy graphics, and thousands of descriptive links. Study the anatomy of the human body online using anatomy charts, models and diagrams. It's fun, interactive and an ideal reference site for students or those who just want to know more about the medical descriptions and anatomical terms used by doctors and nurses.
Solar System Scope
SSS means Astronomy for Everybody. Whether you are a student, astronomy fan or an accidental browser, you are most welcome to play with our user-friendly application. It's full of space-art graphics, has easy-to-use interface with various settings and offers interesting information. SSS will illustrate you real-time celestial positions with planets and constellations moving over the night sky. But I can see you're not just a passive spectator - and that's good, because you can actively change parameters for a better understanding of happenings in our Solar System and the Universe.
The Ruler Game
Use this game to improve how you read a ruler.
That Quiz
ThatQuiz is a free testing service for teachers to use with their classes. Multiple choice tests and math tests can be administered to students using this website. All grades are immediately reported to the students. Teachers receive complete record keeping of test results, including all grades and wrong answers.
Quizlet
Quizlet is a fun, free, way to study languages, vocabulary, or almost anything. We're also the largest and fastest growing educational flashcards site on the web, providing powerful online study tools and games to millions of students. Founded in 2005 by high school sophomore Andrew Sutherland, Quizlet lets you make your own flashcards or choose from millions of flashcards created by other users.
Example: Math
Tutpup
Simple, fun, competitive games that help children learn and gain confidence with Math, English and other key skills and knowledge.
Twitter
The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet. It was created organically by Twitter users as a way to categorize messages. Useful hashtags: #edchat, #edtech, #maths, #mathchat, #scichat, #sciences
Pathways To Your Future Technology Workshop
Exploring STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)Pathways To Your Future Careers is a career awareness program, held at Penn State York, for seventh grade girls highlighting opportunities in mathematics, science, engineering and technology.
Social Networking in Plain English
Diigo
Groups with whom to make friends. Remember to set the "alerts" to a reasonable time frame to meet your needs.
Google
Lets get started with something that we can all relate to:
Wolfram Alpha
http://www.wolframalpha.com/
Getting to Know the Group
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHZNNEJhSTZIQXFtdHZWLTY5WG5UcEE6MQ
Getting to Know the Group Spreadsheet
Statistics:
Mean – the average
Median – middle value of a sample
Mode – most frequent value
Getting organized for technology use in the classroom:
Use a Google Doc Form to collect students user ID's and passwords for classwork. You won't waste time retrieving it.
Google Squared
Try planets, or mathematicians
Google Sets
List predictor and creator
Wordle
Visualize information or data
Example:
Places to Put Stuff
Blogs
Wikis
Khan Academy
Khan library of videos covers K-12 math, science topics such as biology, chemistry, and physics, and even reaches into the humanities with playlists on finance and history. Each video is a digestible chunk, approximately 10 minutes long, and especially purposed for viewing on the computer. What started out as Sal making a few algebra videos for his cousins has grown to over 2,100 videos and 100 self-paced exercises and assessments covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history.
Example:
Homework for tomorrow - Introduction to Age Problems
Fast Math Calculation Tricks
Or, I always wanted to know how to do that!
YouTube
Capture, embed, etc.
Zamzar
This facility allows you to capture and convert YouTube videos for personal storage and use.
Presenting Information
Glogster
Posters without glue and scissors.
Example:
Math Presentation
Newton's Law
Prezi
Not PowerPoint!
Example:
Addition and Subtraction Rules
Newton's Laws
Slide Share
Put your classroom PowerPoint on the net and then embed into wikis or blogs.
SAS Example:
Voki
Toondoo
Cartoon creator
PhotoStory3
This is a free download and it will create a movie similar to the Civil War documentary created by Ken Burns. It is simple to use. This is a Microsoft product and for Windows only.
Audacity
When you download this program, you will also need to download a file called "lame". It allows the sound file to collect and render.
Example:
Draw Anywhere
Store and Organize your research and information, accessible anywhere with an Internet connection. Share your diagrams with others or by embedding into an existing webpage or blog.
Mapping America: Every City, Every Block
Browse local data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, based on samples from 2005 to 2009. Because these figures are based on samples, they are subject to a margin of error, particularly in places with a low population, and are best regarded as estimates.
Interactivate
Shodor Math initiative of applet resources.
Animal Diversity Web
An online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan
Periodic Table of Videos
Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but this modern version has a short video about each one. We've done all 118 - but our job's not finished. Now we're updating all the videos with new stories, better samples and bigger experiments. Plus we're making films about other areas of chemistry, latest news and occasional adventures away from the lab. We've also started a new series - The Molecular Videos - featuring our favourite molecules and compounds. All these videos are created by video journalist Brady Haran, featuring real working chemists from the University of Notttingham, UK.
WeatherSpark
WeatherSpark is a new type of weather website, with interactive weather graphs that allow you to pan and zoom through the entire history of any weather station on earth.
Get multiple forecasts for the current location, overlaid on records and averages to put it all in context.
Inner Body
Inner exploration of Human Anatomy. Each topic has animations, 100's of anatomy graphics, and thousands of descriptive links. Study the anatomy of the human body online using anatomy charts, models and diagrams. It's fun, interactive and an ideal reference site for students or those who just want to know more about the medical descriptions and anatomical terms used by doctors and nurses.
Solar System Scope
SSS means Astronomy for Everybody. Whether you are a student, astronomy fan or an accidental browser, you are most welcome to play with our user-friendly application. It's full of space-art graphics, has easy-to-use interface with various settings and offers interesting information. SSS will illustrate you real-time celestial positions with planets and constellations moving over the night sky. But I can see you're not just a passive spectator - and that's good, because you can actively change parameters for a better understanding of happenings in our Solar System and the Universe.
The Ruler Game
Use this game to improve how you read a ruler.
That Quiz
ThatQuiz is a free testing service for teachers to use with their classes. Multiple choice tests and math tests can be administered to students using this website. All grades are immediately reported to the students. Teachers receive complete record keeping of test results, including all grades and wrong answers.
Quizlet
Quizlet is a fun, free, way to study languages, vocabulary, or almost anything. We're also the largest and fastest growing educational flashcards site on the web, providing powerful online study tools and games to millions of students. Founded in 2005 by high school sophomore Andrew Sutherland, Quizlet lets you make your own flashcards or choose from millions of flashcards created by other users.
Example: Math
Tutpup
Simple, fun, competitive games that help children learn and gain confidence with Math, English and other key skills and knowledge.
Skillwise
Games for lower level ELL/ESL
PLN Information
Twitter
The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet. It was created organically by Twitter users as a way to categorize messages. Useful hashtags: #edchat, #edtech, #maths, #mathchat, #scichat, #sciences
Twitter Follower List by Genre
Tweetdeck